Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind co‑founder Demis Hassabis announced major leadership changes aimed at accelerating the company’s push toward frontier AI and AGI. Hassabis will shift into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, focusing on long‑term AGI strategy, while Koray Kavukcuoglu steps up to lead Google DeepMind’s day‑to‑day operations. The company says its AI momentum is strong, with Gemini models widely adopted and new breakthroughs underway.